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| Race 11 of 14 races in the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 6 September 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official name | Gran Premio Cirio Città di Imola [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1998 City of Imola motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1998 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 6 September 1998 at Imola.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Team | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 1 |  Mick Doohan | Repsol Honda | Honda | 25 | 46:00.092 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 4 |  Àlex Crivillé | Repsol Honda | Honda | 25 | +6.564 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | 6 |  Max Biaggi | Marlboro Team Kanemoto | Honda | 25 | +8.721 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | 9 |  Alex Barros | Honda Gresini | Honda | 25 | +11.244 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 | 12 |  Jean-Michel Bayle | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 25 | +21.672 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 |  Norick Abe | Yamaha Team Rainey | Yamaha | 25 | +28.407 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 2 | Tadayuki Okada | Repsol Honda | Honda | 25 | +36.627 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 15 | Sete Gibernau | Repsol Honda | Honda | 25 | +36.876 | 13 | 8 |
| 9 | 3 | Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 25 | +37.332 | 11 | 7 |
| 10 | 8 | Carlos Checa | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +47.677 | 12 | 6 |
| 11 | 11 |  Simon Crafar | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 25 | +55.890 | 15 | 5 |
| 12 | 55 | Régis Laconi | Red Bull Yamaha WCM | Yamaha | 25 | +57.040 | 7 | 4 |
| 13 | 19 |  John Kocinski | Movistar Honda Pons | Honda | 25 | +58.878 | 8 | 3 |
| 14 | 10 | Kenny Roberts Jr. | Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 25 | +1:06.104 | 10 | 2 |
| 15 | 28 |  Ralf Waldmann | Marlboro Team Roberts | Modenas KR3 | 25 | +1:18.308 | 16 | 1 |
| 16 | 27 | Katsuaki Fujiwara | Suzuki Grand Prix Team | Suzuki | 25 | +1:19.432 | 19 | |
| 17 | 14 | Juan Borja | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 25 | +1:28.491 | 18 | |
| 18 | 23 | Matt Wait | FCC TSR | Honda | 25 | +1:50.817 | 20 | |
| 19 | 57 | Fabio Carpani | Team Polini Inoxmacel | Honda | 24 | +1 lap | 23 | |
| Ret | 77 |  Eskil Suter | MuZ Roc RennSport | MuZ | 18 | Retirement | 14 | |
| Ret | 26 | Bernard Garcia | Shell Advance Racing | Honda | 16 | Retirement | 22 | |
| Ret | 22 | Sébastien Gimbert | Tecmas Honda Elf | Honda | 15 | Retirement | 21 | |
| Ret | 17 |  Jurgen van den Goorbergh | Dee Cee Jeans Racing Team | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 88 |  Scott Smart | Team Millar Honda Britain | Honda | 12 | Retirement | 24 | |
| Ret | 43 | Paolo Tessari | Team Paton | Paton | 7 | Retirement | 25 | |
| Sources: [1] [2] [3] | ||||||||
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Manufacturer | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 3 | Tomomi Manako | Honda | 21 | 42:05.831 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | 13 | Marco Melandri | Honda | 21 | +0.087 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 20 | Masao Azuma | Honda | 21 | +10.394 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 4 | Kazuto Sakata | Aprilia | 21 | +10.466 | 7 | 13 |
| 5 | 5 | Masaki Tokudome | Aprilia | 21 | +22.699 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 41 | Youichi Ui | Yamaha | 21 | +26.133 | 22 | 10 |
| 7 | 15 | Roberto Locatelli | Honda | 21 | +26.546 | 3 | 9 |
| 8 | 62 | Yoshiaki Katoh | Yamaha | 21 | +28.161 | 12 | 8 |
| 9 | 21 | Arnaud Vincent | Aprilia | 21 | +30.584 | 23 | 7 |
| 10 | 26 | Ivan Goi | Aprilia | 21 | +48.516 | 14 | 6 |
| 11 | 9 | Frédéric Petit | Honda | 21 | +48.656 | 17 | 5 |
| 12 | 8 | Gianluigi Scalvini | Honda | 21 | +1:02.010 | 10 | 4 |
| 13 | 7 | Emilio Alzamora | Aprilia | 21 | +1:12.085 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 22 | Steve Jenkner | Aprilia | 21 | +1:12.337 | 11 | 2 |
| 15 | 49 | Andrea Zappa | Honda | 21 | +1:12.408 | 18 | 1 |
| 16 | 17 | Enrique Maturana | Yamaha | 21 | +1:13.006 | 25 | |
| 17 | 48 | Max Sabbatani | Honda | 21 | +1:15.643 | 21 | |
| 18 | 14 | Federico Cerroni | Aprilia | 21 | +1:24.081 | 20 | |
| 19 | 65 | Andrea Iommi | Honda | 21 | +1:33.199 | 24 | |
| Ret | 32 | Mirko Giansanti | Honda | 17 | Accident | 6 | |
| Ret | 29 | Ángel Nieto, Jr. | Aprilia | 16 | Retirement | 19 | |
| Ret | 63 | Marco Tresoldi | Honda | 14 | Accident | 27 | |
| Ret | 23 | Gino Borsoi | Aprilia | 14 | Accident | 9 | |
| Ret | 59 | Jerónimo Vidal | Aprilia | 10 | Retirement | 26 | |
| Ret | 10 | Lucio Cecchinello | Honda | 4 | Accident | 5 | |
| Ret | 47 | Riccardo Chiarello | Aprilia | 2 | Retirement | 16 | |
| Ret | 39 |  Jaroslav Huleš | Honda | 0 | Retirement | 15 | |
| DNS | 52 | Hiroyuki Kikuchi | Honda | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 55 |  Manuel Poggiali | Honda | Did not start | |||
| DNS | 16 | Christian Manna | Yamaha | Did not start | |||
| Source: [5] | |||||||
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round eleven has concluded. [6]
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